Re: Mini-rant on the surreal world of "prepress"
Re: Mini-rant on the surreal world of "prepress"
- Subject: Re: Mini-rant on the surreal world of "prepress"
- From: Randy Zaucha <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:40:40 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks for the great replies.
Yes, it is frustrating that that the printing industry mainly leaves it up to the pressman to use a device not designed to be a color correction machine to make/repair poor color separations into works of art.
Today, I mainly work with "office color" and have staff creating good RGB files from profiled monitors and color managed scans. If they can make an in-house color managed print that shows the color they want, they should be able to send that file and proof to an offset house and get a high quality reproduction.
When shops tell their clients to use Generic CMYK then they put the pressure on the pressman to make garbage into the proverbial silk purse. Again, I'm not talking about bulk printing where there is no budget for achieving high quality.
So my opinion is that clients can produce and proof (in-house) very good RGB files and they should be able to count on a competent offset printer to color separate their files to look great on their press. The client has zero skills at making high quality CMYK and they should not need to learn those skills.
Randy ZauchaManaged Color
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